There were 4 poeple including myself that saw this object (unidentified flying object) come across the sky. It looked like it was approximately 1000 ft up. We saw it cross and stop in mid-air. It shined a beam of light down on us for about what seemed like 1 minute, and then it cut the light off and cut it back on about 2-5 miles away. We were sitting on a M1-A1 Abrams tank when this happened. After it turned the light off the second time the object shot straight up and out of sight.